By Rick O’Brien La Salle’s impressive and surprising run at its first state basketball championship finally ended. With considerable athleticism and toughness, much of it gained on the gridiron, New Castle completed a perfect season by beating the Explorers,…
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PIAA Final: ’Canes to face Philadelphia school
By: Ron Poniewasz Jr., New Castle News This one is for all the marbles. New Castle High. La Salle College. The winner gets gold medals and a sparking trophy. The loser gets silver medals and a runner-up status. The PIAA…
New Castle (30-0) goes for perfect season in tonight’s PIAA Class AAAA boys’ basketball championship opposite La Salle College
By Mark Pynes How they got here: Champions out of the WPIAL, the Hurricanes took out three fellow District 7 playmates in the first three rounds — Bethel Park 71-64 in the first round, North Allegheny 64-54 in the second…
Semifinal loss means end of the road for Chester’s dominant duo
By Matt DeGeorge Tyrell Sturdivant and Mahir Johnson hoped the journey wouldn’t be over. They hoped that the winding path that brought them through the Chester youth systems, though three years at Glasgow (Del.) High School, through a joyous homecoming…
Chester’s run to final stopped short
By Matt DeGeorge Larry Yarbray’s final appraisal of his Chester team’s PIAA semifinal ouster didn’t concern the refs. It didn’t involve bad calls, complaining or games of “what if.” Instead, Yarbray’s explanation for his team’s 61-55 loss to La…
La Salle reaches title game
By Rick O’Brien It was early on, after a turnover and missed rebound, that Dave Krmpotich was taken out of the game by La Salle coach Joe Dempsey. “We went over a couple of things,” Dempsey said of Krmpotich’s brief…
Chester’s advantage inside negated by La Salle
By Matt Smith What happened to Chester Tuesday night at Coatesville Area High School could be construed as a blatant miscarriage of justice perpetrated by the men wearing black-striped shirts. Whether the Clippers were cheated out of a fourth…
High School Players in 2014 March Madness Games
By Dave Burman, 105.5 WCHX radio ARIZONA Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, 6-7 fr F, Chester SYRACUSE B.J. Johnson, 6-7 fr F, Lower Merion TEXAS SOUTHERN Tyree Bynum, 5-9 fr G, Penn Wood Aaric Murray, 6-10 sr C, Glen Mills VILLANOVA Darryl Reynolds,…
Dogged defense the key to Chester’s success
By Matt DeGeorge Somehow when Larry Yarbray says it, the cliché doesn’t sound quite so tired. Perhaps it’s because the Chester boys basketball coach has brought the archaic platitude to life so many times. Or perhaps it’s because he’s…
Contributors not in short supply on this Chester team
By Matt Smith If he had to, Conrad Chambers could score 20 points a night and be the focal point on Chester’s basketball team. Had Tyrell Sturdivant and Mahir Johnson not transferred to Chester or failed to make a…